Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Programme of Study of Primary Teacher Education and Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Programme of Study for Primary Teacher Education with English and German Language

Academic title abbreviation

mag. prim. educ.

Genre

master's thesis

Language

Croatian

Defense date

2015-11-26

Parallel abstract (English)

This paper was written with the goal to relate exploring regional ethnographic
heritage with art lessons to primary school teachers and students. By getting to know
more, learning how and in which stages of exploring their own ethnic heritage,
collecting it and properly recording the details of it, students are allowed a visual
contact which facilitates learning and enables the possibility of creative interpretation
of a work of art to be done properly in the end. In the introduction we are introduced
with the term ethnography that the layman can easily translate as a combination of
two words, ethos and grafein, which mean something that the people wrote, created.
We continue with the listing of stages in ethnographic research which should be
abided by to ensure that everything is done properly, and the class teachers can
simplify them to students, but without excluding the facts necessar y for quality
research. In the second chapter we talk about the Museum of Međimurje Čakovec,
the main one in the county, which has the biggest number of displayed items that are
part of ethnographic heritage of Međimurje, and consists of departments displaying
different collections, of which we talk about ethnographic ones. After that we present
the history of ethnography, which was, for years, in the function of pedagogical
ethnography that wants to examine and improve the quality of schools and education,
but also had some negative features due to various influences of society. The most
important part is about contemporary school, which is increasingly introducing
ethnography as a discipline into the classroom teaching, and with it also into the art
subject. Finally we conclude that it is important to nurture ethnic heritage, introduce
ethnography in education to improve the quality of education and raise the
importance of educational subjects, in this case art subject.